Abstract: A method of providing services for a messaging application with in-built web search is performed by an internet server. The internet server receives a query request from the messaging application of a first user device and then processes the query request. Processing the query request includes communicating with one or more internet services to obtain query results. The internet server generates an encoded message that includes a reference to the query results and maintains a database that correlates the reference with the query results. The internet server then forwards a query response, including the query results and the encoded message, to the first user device. The reference to the query results are subsequently received at the internet server from a second user device. The internet server forwards the one or more query results to the second user device based on the received reference.